Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Maxfield has learned to spit.This is definitely a milestone in a little boy’s life. I am not talking about saliva or hocking loogies just yet, but it is the actual art of spitting that he has figured out.

A few months ago, while he was drinking water, he discovered that if he opened his mouth, the water would spill out onto his face and chest. Since then he has been working on forcing it out of his mouth and he perfected the raspberry-lips-vibrating-fine-mist-spray-spit-take technique.

Yesterday, he figured out how to actually project the water in a stream away from his body. His accuracy sucks, but his distance is a foot or so, which is a good start. I figure we could practice after watching Outlaw Josey Wales a few times because no one has spit-accuracy like Clint Eastwood does in that film.

We need to work on his spit etiquette though. Last night he took a swig of juice, walked over to Lauren as if he was going to give her kiss, and as she leaned in she said, “Ahhh are you giving mommy a ….blech.”

William you make me laugh! Santa doesn't need to bring me anything else! ;-) And keep up the good work with Max, Liam is doing the "drop the drool over the dogs head." Same effect, but much slooooooooower.

My nephew is just two and he learned to spit last summer and loved it! Too bad he was spitting on his friends and other things. That had to be curbed really quick. Now he only spits in the sink when he brushes his teeth!

Gross! I'm gagging - it brings me back to the memorie I have of elizabeth when she was about 6 months old and i was layin gon the couch holding her up above my head and she drooled right into my mouth! I didn't know what to do so I rolled over and spit it on the floor. Max must look so cute doing that :)